Simulink: programmatically find all blocks of a certain kind

Hello,

I would like to programmatically monitor the usage of certain kinds of blocks, in order to be warned if they are being used.

What i imagine is being able to do something like this (using pseudocode):

num_unwanted_elements = 0;
for el in Simulink.model_elements:
    if el.type == "Unwanted_element":
        num_unwanted_elements++;
    end
end

Can i do that? If so, how?

Answer 1

[Mark McBroom]

find_system() is designed for this. https://www.mathworks.com/help/simulink/slref/find_system.html

Answer 2

[Animesh Gupta]

Hello,

It is my understanding that you want to programmatically find all blocks of a certain kind.

The blocks of a certain kind can be found using findBlocksOfType method of Simulink.

For example - if the model name is "myModel", and you want to find all blocks of type "constant", you can use this method as

Simulink.findBlocksOfType("myModel", "constant");

It will return handles to all the blocks of "constant" type.

You can also refer the documentation in the following link - https://www.mathworks.com/help/simulink/slref/simulink.findblocksoftype.html

I hope it helps.